4DOS (was: Re: Automating Bookshare)

[Brent Harding]

Oh, and how would I use these to automate the GUI? All the docs out there, 
we all know they're normally geared mostly for sighted, depend on recording 
macros where I'd need to be able to directly click something, but how do you 
do that if you use a screen reader cursor? I'd need to record the act of 
where it clicked but not the screen reader commands. I'm trying to automate 
Imtoo Video to Audio converter, a program I use to convert mpeg-2 video 
files I record off my TV capture card. It has no shortcut keys in it to just 
use Autoit and send those to activate buttons, and I'd need to hit add and 
choose a file for each mpg in the list, meaning you would have to get the 
number of items in the list and arrow down consecutively enough to do it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcel Oats" <moats at orcon.net.nz>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: 4DOS (was: Re: Automating Bookshare)


> Hi, Take Command is the software for XP.  You're right, it's not
> supported anymore, which is a pity.
> Marcel
> At 09:54 p.m. 22/02/2008, you wrote:
>>Hi, 4DOS is still around but unsupported.  It runs under Win9X and XP,
>>but for XP 4NT is probably better.  I assume it would run in dosemu
>>under Linux but I haven't tested.  I don't know about FreeDOS.  JP
>>Software stopped developing it many years ago but some in Bulgaria took
>>over development.  I don't know if it's open source or not, but
>>apparently the source was released by JP Software.  Look here:
>>http://4dos.hit.bg/  Also, you can still get Wordperfect for DOS but you
>>have to buy it.  http://wpdos.org/  I verified that WP for DOS works
>>fine with Speakup.
>>
>>Gaijin wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:53:59PM -0600, Brent Harding wrote:
>> >
>> >> That's one of those things I hate about Microsoft as well. I
>> have a program
>> >> that records TV for me off a tuner card, and I'd like to run something 
>> >> as
>> >> the command after the recording finishes that would convert the
>> mpeg-2 video
>> >> into .wav or some other audio. I don't think I could find a script for
>> >> Windows, much less Linux, that would convert all the .mpg's in
>> one folder to
>> >> .wav's in another and then delete the original video files.
>> >>
>> > :End-Quote:
>> >
>> >       If all you need is a more powerful kind of DOS, you might
>> > look into JP Software's 4DOS.  They used to have a version of it for
>> > Win95, but that was the last time I looked.  Haven't a clue what they
>> > have now, but the old 4DOS added some 70 batch commands to the mix with
>> > a replacement for COMMAND.COM.  Made the DOS command line almost as
>> > powerful as bash.
>> >
>> >                       Michael
>> >
>> >
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